Promote coding style that reduces the chance of collisions with
applications.

Signed-off-by: Mike Holmes <[email protected]>
---
 doc/implementers-guide/implementers-guide.adoc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/implementers-guide/implementers-guide.adoc 
b/doc/implementers-guide/implementers-guide.adoc
index 5c0e864..829f316 100644
--- a/doc/implementers-guide/implementers-guide.adoc
+++ b/doc/implementers-guide/implementers-guide.adoc
@@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ recommended that other implementations follow the same 
schema
 (*odp-<implementation name>*) to make the representation of the ODP
 implementations uniform in a distribution.
 
+== ODP internal function naming recommendations
+When symbols are required that may leak into the external API definition they
+should be prefixed _odp to reduce the chance of a name collision.
+
+Whenever possible internal functions should be static to reduce link time 
issues
+.
+
 [[validation]]
 == The Validation Suite
 ODP provides a comprehensive set of API validation tests that are intended to 
be
-- 
2.7.4

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